The son of Spanish immigrants, Laxe was born in Paris in 1982 and studied film at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He moved to Tangiers, Morocco, four years ago, where he created and now runs "Dao Byed," a 16mm film workshop for disadvantaged children. This workshop led to his first feature film, "You Are All Captains."

The documentary is the story of his filmmaking experience with children living in a home for socially excluded youngsters in Tangiers. While filming, the director's unorthodox working methods cause his relationship with the children to disintegrate to such a point that the initial course of the project is altered.

The 2010 Cannes Film Festival selected the film for the Director's Fortnight, an event that shows independent films from all over the world in a non-competitive showcase, and the film earned the International Federation of Film Critics Prize.

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